Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
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Robert Sutter
Professor of Practice of International Affairs
Office: Room 503R, 1957 E Street, N.W.
Phone: (202) 994-5886
E-mail: sutterr@gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise:
Contemporary U.S. policy toward Asia and the Pacific; political, security and economic determinants of change in Asia and the Pacific; the role of Congress and the role of the Intelligence Community in contemporary American foreign policy; Taiwan — internal and international affairs; Chinese foreign relations; U.S.-China relations; salient issues in contemporary China and their international implications.
Background:
Robert Sutter is Professor of Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University beginning in 2011. His earlier full-time position was Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (2001-2011).
A Ph.D. graduate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, Sutter taught part-time for over thirty years at Georgetown, George Washington, Johns Hopkins Universities, or the University of Virginia. He has published 19 books, over 200 articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent book is U.S.-Chinese Relations: Perilous Past, Pragmatic Present (Rowman and Littlefield 2010).
Sutter's government career (1968-2001) involved work on Asian and Pacific affairs and US foreign policy for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was for many years the Senior Specialist and Director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service. He also was the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the US Government's National Intelligence Council, and the China Division Director at the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.